Well
all right! Now we're talking...a modern Marvel Comic not rooted in a
crossover or designed to read as a bloated six issue arc. Warren
Ellis has constructed six largely stand alone issues heavy on the
action and light on the talking heads. I am unfamiliar with Declan
Shalvey's artwork but loved it, ditto Jordie Bellaire's color art.
Colorists do a lot more heavy lifting in terms of the artwork than
they did even a decade ago, almost acting as an inker at times. Moon
Knight has been reinterpreted in a way that doesn't discard what has
happened before yet feels fresh and current. I'll be back for Volume
2.

Junk
Food For Thought rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The
OCD zone

Paper
stock: Good weight semi-glossy coated stock.

Binding:
Perfect bound trade paperback.

Cardstock
cover notes:
Thick waxlike lamination. Marvel uses a thinner cardstock these days,
allowing the book to be more malleable.

MAGIC
WIND VOL. 5: LONG KNIFE (Epicenter,
2014;
Softcover)

Collects
Magic
Wind
#5 (cover date December, 1997)

Writer:
Gianfranco Manfredi

Artist:
Giuseppe Barbati and Bruno Ramella

Colorist:
Connie Daidone

I
buy too many damn books. I am making it something of a New Year's
resolution to drop a lot of this ancillary stuff. I need to whittle
my backlog down rather than add to it. The sad thing is that Magic
Wind is good stuff. This is part one of a two-parter, but even
the cliffhanger can't keep me hanging on.